Sony VAIO F Series - Core i7-740QM Processing Power

dissipation. And when they did, they lightened their mainstream business model by almost three pounds.

Sony VAIO S Series NotebookThe Sony engineers are charged with this mission: Sacrifice nothing. Improve business notebooks not with cheaper workarounds and cover-ups, but better, smarter industrial design. Don’t cover bad architecture with pretty plastic. Don’t reduce power. Keep it cool. Make it light. Crank up the volume.

Sony VAIO Engineering

At the heart of every Sony VAIO business notebook PC is the best engineered processing engines the world has ever seen: Intel’s Core i3, i5, and i7 processors.

The latest model VPCF13GGX/B of Sony’s VAIO F Series represents Sony’s commitment to bringing both performance and durability to business PC users everywhere. Model VPCF13GGX/B is powered by Intel’s incredible Core i7-740QM quad-core processor. It’s simultaneously one of the fastest and most economical mobile CPUs that Intel has ever produced. It has an onboard memory cache (6 megabytes) you’d expect to find in a server processor, but with a thermal design point as low as 45 W — drawing a mere fraction of the power of yesterday’s Pentiums. VAIO F Series Model VPCF13GGX/B brings you the i7-740QM in a sleek, widescreen console inspired by Z Series, plus 640 GB hard drive and 4 GB of memory standard.

Sony VAIO F Series Powerhouse

Couple the Core i7-740QM with Sony’s exclusive MOTION EYE built-in camera, which tracks your face as you move around a room, and the VPCF13GGX/B becomes a fully portable HD videoconferencing studio. The same expertise that produces

Preloaded with a metric butt-ton of crap and proprietary as hell - not for me thanks. Hopefully they've mended their ways now but I've always thought of Sony as an all shirt and no trousers manufacturer, and a very expensive shirt at that! If you want a good value laptop Toshiba are cheaper, more reliable and they'll actually sell you spare parts rather than make you use the hideously expensive "authorized" repair shops when it does break. If you want beautiful, don't mind highly proprietary behavior and money is no object get an Apple, they can run windows these days if that's your bag.

I am struck by the pointlessness of me reading a sponsored article like this one. When I want to read Sony marketing materials I go the Sony web site. But these articles are not here for me the reader, they are here to generate revenue for Tom's, so given that I suppose a few of these are better than more banner and sidebar ads because they are so much easier to ignore.

2. Vaio products have a history of bugs and problems, especially with heat in both laptops and desktops.

Sony, believe it or not, at one time was quality goods. Those days seem to have slipped away into being average (while keeping the quality premium price)... perhaps a little less when looking at the reliability of the Vaio computer products.

This reads like it was written by a Sony mAdman. Oh, look in the title the first word in Sponsored, thanks that helps. Without it I might have had to read more that two pages of their ad before catching on. Yes, I know I am slow. I don't like restrictive equipment that also force feeds crap-ware. I five TomsHardward an A for warning me and Sony as usual a D for deceit.

As a rule, if it doesn't have a trackpoint, I am not interested. It would help if they were more durable, had better battery life, and didn't come loaded with crapware. Until these things change, I will pass on any Sony laptop.